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of all took place at Los Angeles.
Mrs. Robert Bain, wife of the first
permanent juror accepted by both
sides in the McNamara trial, said
that she accepted $500 as earnest
money for a bribe which was to
total $5,000 if she influenced her
husband to disregard evidence
against James B. McNamara and
to vote for an acquittal.
It is said that District Attorney
Fredricks is withholding evidence
of the gravest character in con
nection with the bribery of jurors.
One report says that Fredricks
is merely waiting until another of
the accepted jurors who received
itioney comes forward and con
fesses. Mrs. Bain says she was given
the $500 after her husband quali
fied as a jurot. She turned the
money over to the district attor
ney to be used as evidence; She
says she cannot tell who gave it
to her.
George N. Lockwood, the pros
pective juror who worked with
the district attorney's detectives
in bringing about teh -arrest for
bribery of Bert Franklin, has
identified a picture of a man high
in the counsels of the McNamara
defense as a man who joined
Franklin a few minutes after the
v money was passed to Lickwood.
Samuel Gompers, president of
the American Federation of La--bor,
today declared the suspicions
expressed in certain quarters that
various unions had given their
sanction to the use of dynamite,
were unfounded.
'4When specific charges ".are.
made against! jthenun joins;; it will -
be-our 'duty to investigate," He
said. "There has been a lot of -
vaporizing and fuming about all
these suspicions. But there has
been nothing definite. x
"In the Los Angeles case, you
see what labor does when itfinds t
proof of guilt. It repudiates and
reviles the unauthorized murder
ers. "But of all the hundreds of dy
namiters over the country, not
one has ever been proven to have
sprung from a labor union's coun
cil." Asked how he came to permit
Edward Nockels, secretary of the
Chicago Federation of Labor, to ,
attend the conference of labor t
leaders at Los. Angeles to con
sider the McNamaras' guilty
Gompers replied:
"I was at Atlanta when Dar-
row's telegram arrived. It mere-j
ly asked that some representative,
come to Los Angeles. I was very
busy, and handed the message to
some one else."
Semi-official information at In- f
dianapolis -says that at least ten
or twelve prominent labor head
ers will be arrested on indict
ments charging them with comr;
plicity in a plot for the illegal car-
rying of explosives on passenger
trains.
Detective Burns, who has been
in conference with officials of theT
National Erectors'.association al-
most constantly since the McNa-'
maras confessed, bitterly de
nounced'Samuel Gompers today,
for his continued denial of having
knowledge of the guilt of the Mc-
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